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Pachouri gets a jumbo team to run the party

BHOPAL: The new executive of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee headed by the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Suresh Pachouri, has been announced.

In the jumbo committee, announced late on Thursday night, there are 12 vice-presidents, 17 general secretaries, 26 secretaries and 50 executive committee members. The permanent invitees include veteran party leaders like Arjun Singh, Kamal Nath, Satyavrat Chaturvedi, Digvijay Singh, Jamuna Devi, Kantilal Bhuria, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Singh and all former PCC presidents, besides all MPs and MLAs,

The new vice-presidents are Harvansh Singh, Vitthalbhai Patel, Balkavi Bairagi, Sajjan Singh Verma, Bisahulal Singh, Mahendra Singh Kalukheda, Govind Singh, Arif Aqueel, Manik Singh, Ramlal Yadav, Rameshwar Nikhra and Vijay Laxmi Sadho.

The general secretaries are Rajiv Singh, Bala Bachchan, Arunodaya Choube, Rajkumar Patel, Sobran Singh Mawai, Govind Rajput Prabhu Dayal Gehlot, Archana Jaiswal, Om Raghuvanshi, Bharat Singh, Sajid Ali, Premchand Guddu, Prakash Jain, Raja Pateria, Mohan Singh Bundela, Ashok Sharma and Laxman Dholi.

Former State Minister N. P. Prajapati, who has been accused of involvement in the pay-off scandal linked with the Rajya Sabha election, has been appointed the new treasurer.

The party secretaries are Ramvaran Singh Gurjar, Ramesh Dubey, Dinesh Gurjar, Balbir Tomar, Abhay Mehta, Devendra Tekam, Ashok Singh, Atul Sharma, Rajendra Gehlot, Rakesh Ratan Singh, Pankaj Sanghvi, Vrindavan Ahirwar, Sanjay Pathak, Hazarilai Dangi, Yogesh Sharma, Chetan Patidar Jagdish Shukla, Manoj Kapoor, Karan Singh Pawar, Vijay Dhakad, Udai Pratap Singh, Umrao Singh Gurjar, Sanjay Shukla, Rajesh Rajput, Kalpana Salaam and Hari Om Sharma.

While a few, including Pankaj Sanghvi, Premnarayan Mishra, Rakesh Ratan Singh, Surendra Singh Thakur and Pratap Bhanu Sharma have been demoted , prominent among those who have failed to find a berth in the newly constituted State Congress committee before the coming Assembly elections are former Bhopal Mayor Deepchand Yadav and Manak Agrawal, who has been the State Congress spokesman for a long time.

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